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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Sep 16, 2012 - 04:39pm PT
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What was the linkage--if any--between Whillans and Brown and the later partnership of Tasker and Boardman? My sense of history on that side of the pond is a kind of sketchy, but Tasker's account of the 1976 ascent of Changabang is a thing of (intense) beauty.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 07:05pm PT
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A fine fellow named Stanley Norrie sent me this excellent Joe Brown interview which appeared in Rocksport magazine in 1968. First of several that he sent.
Thanks for sharing this with us Stanley!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 21, 2013 - 02:33pm PT
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The 1972 Rocksport interview of the other half of the Dynamic Duo, Don Whillans.
Thanks again Stanley!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2013 - 03:12pm PT
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High Quality Bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 12, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
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Fascinating that Cenotaph almost got Joe...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2016 - 12:06pm PT
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I just got a copy of Don's biography and will be posting some of it as soon as Photobucket works again. Groan...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2018 - 06:28pm PT
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Back in bizness bump...
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2018 - 09:34am PT
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Bump for the Great Days...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 09:44am PT
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Who was responsible for the morbid appellation ‘Cenotaph Corner’?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2018 - 09:56am PT
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I bet the name preceded Joe Brown as I suspect folks eyeballed the hell out of that one ahead of his arrival. My collection of early British guides isn't so good as to yield an answer to your question but I will keep looking.
Blakey?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 24, 2018 - 10:09am PT
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The Cenotaph on Whitehall...
This is literally in the middle of the street. The bus is headed towards Westminster Palace
2 blocks away.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2018 - 10:26am PT
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What's in a name bump...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Dec 30, 2018 - 09:21pm PT
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Bump for the old men
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Bump didy bump
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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Steve,
I've just stumbled on this.......
The name of 'Cenotaph Corner' corner may indeed predate Brown's ascent. The 'Cenotaph Corner Finish', a severe which follows the line above the ledge was climbed (and presumably named) in 1939......
Blakey
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 8, 2019 - 07:46am PT
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Nice find Blakey!
I suspect there was plenty of morbid conversation surrounding Cenotaph Corner from very early on as it certainly would beg to be climbed but at what cost to the leader. LOL
Who established the 1938 route that you described?
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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R Hind and J E Q Barford.......Oct 21 1939
I think both were Climbers Club members (Barford certainly was he has an obit in the CC journal).
A quick search doesn't reveal much about Hind.
Steve
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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On September 26, 1951 a group of Manchester climbers formed The Rock And Ice Club. Hard boyz into hard men.
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Alan Rubin
climber
Amherst,MA.
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Coincidentally there is a current thread on UK Climbing (Rocktalk) on the naming of Cenotaph Corner. The information on there is that it was named by Welsh activist Menlove Edwards in the 1930s--and is very consistent with Edwards' 'style' of naming climbs. One entry mentions a reference that Edwards top-roped the route (or attempted to do so) during that era--he surely had the ability.
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